China's forests

Introduction The People's Republic of China has rich cultures and diversity of nature. And it was cited as a "super college country" by biologist. Since China adopted modernization in 1950, forests were cut indiscriminately and the area of ​​the forest decreased. This threatened biodiversity, rapidly reduced the number of mammals and birds, the repetition of flooding and erosion, and repeated snow storms. This not only threatens the global climate but also damages the lives of local people, causing a great loss of life and downstream damage.

China's forest coverage rate is only 16.55% of the country, only 60% of the world average of 26%. In terms of forest area, China is ranked fifth in the world after Russia, Brazil, Canada and the United States. However, the per capita forest area is only 0.128 hectares, which is one-fifth of the world average of 0.6 hectares. The plantation area in China is the 7th largest in the world, second only to Russia, Brazil, Canada, America, Zaire and Indonesia. The afforestation area per capita is only 0 cubic meter, which is one eighth of the world average of 81 cubic meters. Clearly, compared with the developing countries, the above three figures are rather low, not to mention industrialized countries.

China's forest area is only 20%, but because China boasts the world's largest forest area, it is a priority target for forest protection. In 2001, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) cited China as the top 15 countries of "closed forest", the primitive old growing forest or naturally regenerated forest. 12% of the land area of ​​China, that is, more than 111 million hectares are closed forests. However, in the United Nations Environment Program, protection work is particularly important as it is estimated that 36% of China's closed forests are affected by population density. In 2011, Conservation International cited the southwest Sichuan forest as one of the top 10 threatened forests in the world.

The long-term destruction of China's barrier-free forests has given way to the vibrant forest regeneration program proved to be inadequate; the forest resources are still quite modest. The main forests are distributed in Tongling and Zhongshan, and in the highlands of Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province. As they could not get in, Qin Lin did not do extensive work, and the majority of the country's timber came from Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province.

Natural forests are concentrated in the northeast and the southwest, but are not common in populated, economically developed Eastern plains and vast Northwest areas. Given the regional distribution, the forests in China are mainly distributed in the Northeast Forest Area, Southwest Forest Area, and Southeastern Forest Area. Chinese grassland is vast. There are 400 million hectares of grassland in China. According to the statistical report, China is one of the countries with the world's largest grassland area. Natural grasslands are mainly distributed in the west and northern parts of Daixingang, Ginzan, eastern Tibetan plateau, and artificial grasslands are concentrated in southeastern China between cultivated land and forest.

Distribution of major natural resources around the world (including South Asia and the Indian subcontinent)